Infowar‘s Paul Joseph Watson alerts us to an Oct. 10, 2013 solicitation posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website for contractors to supply armed Protective Security Officers (PSO) for a hitherto unknown unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called the Federal Protective Service.

The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is the Federal Law Enforcement and Security Organization responsible for the Protection and Security of Federal Buildings, Property, and Personnel across the Nation. The FPS operations focus on Law Enforcement and reduction of Federal Facility vulnerabilities to criminal and terrorist threats as well as accidental and natural hazards, while ensuring that Public Facilities are safe, secure, and remain available as a vital part of everyday American life. FPS currently performs all necessary Security and Law Enforcement functions at nearly 9,000 federally owned and leased locations throughout the United States and its territories.

A PSO [Protective Security Officer] is the equivalent of an Armed Guard IIas set forth in the Department of Labor (DOL) Directory of Occupations.

The Contractor will be required to provide and maintain all management, supervision, manpower, training, equipment, supplies, licenses, permits, certificates, insurance, pre-employment screenings, reports, files and any other resources necessary to accomplish the security services. PSOs will be required to be armed and some posts may require screening of visitors using x-rays/magnetometers.

The solicitation states that “The estimated value of this Contract is between $75M and $80M.”

Now we know what all those hollow-point bullets purchased by DHS are for.

Paul Joseph Watson informs us that there have been at least two past instances when the FPS goons were deployed:

For a controversial drill last year dubbed “Operation Shield,” during which FPS agents armed with semiautomatic guns were posted outside a Social Security office in Florida.

Earlier this year, Federal Protective Service officers were hired to guard an IRS building in St. Louis during a Tea Party protest against the IRS’s discriminatory targeting of conservative groups.

But the FPS goons are not just to provide armed security to federal buildings; they also spy on Americans deemed by President Lucifer to be “anti-government.”

In 2011, the DHS asserted that it had every right to spy on peaceful protest groups and had been using Federal Protective Service (FPS) agents to do so since at least 2006. In March, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis admitted that the DHS spies on “groups that are anti-government,” especially “domestic” terrorists. Davis said the people whom “We want to kind of take a look at” include people “putting political stickers in public bathrooms or participating in movements against the death penalty.”

Recall that a 2009 DHS secret memo and a more recent 2012 reportidentify Americans who love liberty, are “fiercely nationalistic,” “anti-global,” pro-life, pro-Second Amendment gun rights, Christian, and military veterans, to be “domestic terrorists.”

In effect, the DHS “Protective Security Officers” not only are Obama’s civilian army, they are also his secret police.

Yes, tnrick, always, as failure to recall is one of humankind’s two great faults. The other is failure to ‘get it’ in a timely manner. One of the eternal verities we learn from history is that a privileged class never yields any of its advantages, even when it’s clear that giving up a few small concessions would save the day. The French mobs actually liked Marie Antoinette, far more than her husband, their king. But when the responses she gave to their pleas appeared to them as disdain or lack of concern, they were infuriated and turned on her as well. Much the same will happen here when its moment arrives….